Volume: 39 Issue: 2
Report on ethnopharmacological uses of ethno-medicinal plants by tribes of District Jashpur, Chhattisgarh, India
Year: 2017, Page: 88-92, Doi: https://doi.org/10.62029/jmaps.v39i2.Ahirwar
Received: July 31, 2017 Accepted: Sept. 25, 2017 Published: Dec. 31, 2017
This is a survey report about some ethnomedicnal plants used by various tribal communities of district dashpur, Chhattisgarh, India. A record on 34 plants species belonging to 22 families, used for curing various human and animal ailments has been compiled for future bio-prospection and scientific validation studies.
Keywords: Chhattisgarh, Ethnomedicine, Jashpur, Tribe
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Ramesh Kumar Ahirwar. 2017. Report on ethnopharmacological uses of ethno-medicinal plants by tribes of District Jashpur, Chhattisgarh, India. J Med Aromat Plant Sci 39: 88-92.
